e appointed to end her
mortal state had arrived, and go she must. She lived four days after
the physicians had lost all hope, and I think I never witnessed
greater distress. I watched every word with anxious care to find if
any breath of prayer was to be heard; but alas, I had no such
satisfaction. As she was insensible after the first few days, it was
not to be expected she could either think or pray.

"O, why will sinners resist the grace of God, and spend the
precious time given to seek and find it in thoughtless folly? What can
they do, on such a bed of distress, who have no God? Time misspent and
gone--opportunities unimproved and gone--calls resisted never to be
repeated--death hunting the soul through every avenue of life--a
dreadful, unknown, unthought of eternity at hand--an awful Judge, and
no Advocate secured to plead. A time was when a kind Saviour was
expostulating with them: 'Why will you die?' 'Hear, and your soul
shall live;' 'Ask, and you shall receive; seek, and you shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you;' 'Look unto me and be ye
saved, all ye ends of the earth;' 'Let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord,
and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon;' 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters'--blessings purchased by Christ: pardon of sin, reconciliation
with God, a new heart and spirit, all that is necessary for time and
eternity--'He that hath no money,' no merit, no good about him, no
claim upon any account whatever, 'come, buy and eat, without money and
without price;' 'Why spend ye your money,' time, talents, affections,
desires, 'for that which is not bread,' and cannot satisfy? 'incline
your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live, and I will
make an everlasting covenant with you. Now is the accepted time; now
is the day of salvation. To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not
your heart.'

"Such is the language of the dear Redeemer to sinners every day,
in his written word, from the pulpit, and in the dispensations of his
providence; but O, the madness of sinners, who will not think, who
will not attend, will not apply to this Saviour, whose sole errand
into this world was to seek and to save sinners, yea, the very chief;
but they will not put their souls into his hands, nor give him any
service. A time will come, and we are forewarned of it, when th